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Tuesday 18 August 2026
Tokyo University's satellite legacy helped build Japan's space startup wave—now comes harder part
Japan may not possess the industrial scale or launch economics of satellite giants such as SpaceX, but the country has established its own development mechanism around persistent experimentation,...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Nvidia swaps credit support for exclusive chip sales in OpenAI's Ohio data center campus

Nvidia has reached a deal with OpenAI to provide up to US$105 billion in credit guarantees for the AI startup's upcoming 8GW data center...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Commentary: AMD's Taalas acquisition echoing Jensen Huang's Groq strategy

On February 20, 2026, Canadian AI chip startup Taalas unveiled its HC1 inference chip. Taalas said the chip ran the Llama 3.1 8B model...

Monday 17 August 2026
AMD eyes Taalas: will the system ditch HBM, advanced packaging, and 3D stacking?
The AI compute landscape was jolted in February 2026 by Taalas, a Canadian startup founded by former AMD and NVIDIA architect Ljubisa Bajic. Emerging with an unconventional "Model-Based"...
Monday 17 August 2026
Stripe reportedly agrees to buy AI routing startup OpenRouter for more than US$7 billion
Stripe has reportedly finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter, a startup that helps businesses switch between artificial intelligence (AI) models, for more than US$7 billion,...
Friday 14 August 2026
VinSpace signs SpaceX launch deal for first satellites in 2027
Vietnamese aerospace startup VinSpace has signed a contract with SpaceX to launch its first satellites in 2027. Bloomberg reported that the payloads will fly on a SpaceX Transporter...
Friday 14 August 2026
DeepSeek raises API prices sharply as V4 Pro targets agentic AI market
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has officially launched its V4 Pro model with significantly enhanced agent capabilities, while sharply increasing API prices as it seeks to expand beyond...
Friday 14 August 2026
Musk hints at FEL light source for Terafab; ASML eyes FEL-EUV push
After EVs, rockets, and humanoid robots, Elon Musk appears to be turning his attention to optimizing the chip manufacturing process. When he unveiled a US$16.8 billion initial investment...
Friday 14 August 2026
Cerebras raises 2026 outlook as hardware sales weaken
AI chip startup Cerebras Systems raised its full-year 2026 core revenue and gross margin outlook after reporting second-quarter results, but the company also disclosed declining hardware...
Friday 14 August 2026
China's video AI dominance paves the way for world model boom

Chinese AI video-generation models are taking the world by storm. This competitive edge is not only disrupting Hollywood, but could...

Thursday 13 August 2026
From lab bench to IPO: How Taiwan's top university aims to turn professors into founders, campus into a unicorn factory

National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), one of Taiwan's leading research universities, has spent more than a decade cultivating a campus...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Manus breaks from Meta, returns to independence after China blocks US$2B AI deal

Chinese AI agent startup Manus is returning to independent operations, marking a concrete break from Meta months after Chinese regulators...

Friday 7 August 2026
AMD to buy Taalas in push for faster AI inference chips

AMD said on August 6 that it has agreed to buy Taalas, a Toronto-based startup focused on specialized AI inference silicon, in a move...

Friday 7 August 2026
NEO seeks partner by end-2026 for fivefold-density X-SRAM

AI memory startup NEO Semiconductor has unveiled X-SRAM, a new architecture designed to address the difficulty of scaling conventional...

Thursday 6 August 2026
ByteDance founder shuns AI distillation, wary of more US scrutiny

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming recently said that the company would not use distillation to train its AI models, even if they fall...